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Loudoun County Public Schools offer three courses in which the
“Essential Understandings” have particular relevance.
Click the appropriate course title to access the Standards of Learning
guidelines that will be reinforced by using the materials at this
site.
Virginia Studies:
| VS.1 |
The student will develop skills for historical.
. . analysis including the ability to: |
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draw conclusions and make generalizations; |
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identify and interpret . . .primary and
secondary source documents to understand
events in history; |
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sequence events in Virginia history. |
| VS.7 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the issues that
divided our nation and led to the Civil War by identifying .
. .differences between northern and southern states that divided
Virginia and led to secession. |
| VS.8 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Reconstruction
of Virginia following the Civil War by identifying the effects
of segregation and “Jim Crow” on life in Virginia; |
| VS.9 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of 20th century Virginia
by identifying the social and political events in Virginia linked
to desegregation and Massive Resistance and their relationship
to national history. |
United States History to 1877:
| USI.1 |
The student will develop skills for historical
. . . analysis, including the ability to identify and interpret
primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding
of events and life in US history to 1877. |
| USI.9 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes, major
events, and effects of the Civil War by: |
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describing the cultural, economic, and constitutional issues
that divided the nation; and, |
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explaining how the issues of states’ rights and slavery
increased sectional tensions. |
| USI.10 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the effects of Reconstruction
on American life by identifying the provisions of the 13th,
14th, 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
and their impact on the expansion of freedom in America. |
United States History: 1877 to the Present:
| USII.1 |
The student will demonstrate skills for historical.
. . analysis, including the ability to analyze and interpret
primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding
of events and life in US history from 1877 to the present. |
| USII.3 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of how life changed
after the Civil War by describing racial segregation, the
rise of “Jim Crow,” and other constraints faced
by African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. |
| USII.7 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the economic,
social, and political transformation of the US . . .between
the end of World War II and the present by describing the
changing patterns of society, including expanded educational
and economic opportunities for military veterans, women, and
minorities; |
| USII.8 |
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the key domestic
issues during the second half of the 20th century by examining
the Civil Rights Movement and the changing role of women. |
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